[Bug 22996] Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22996

--- Comment #7 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
I have done some digging:

I have made some data available:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/html5bq/index.html

This is an index of 318 pages which use the HTML5 doctype and include
blockquote elements (and sometimes cite elements). The sample pages were drawn
from the raw data from March 2012 (121Mb http://webdevdata.org/data/data.zip).
Consisting of approximately 8000 home pages from the top 10,000 most popular
web sites.

I have added styles to blockquote and cite elements so that they are easily
identifiable when viewing the page.

There is also grep output for the indexed pages:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/blockquote.html


observations:

    blockquote usage from these pages appears to be largely for its intended
use.
    it is common for the attribution to be included within the blockquote
    when <cite> is used it is common for it to be included inside the
blockquote element
    when <cite> is used it is common for it to be used for attributing a quote
to a person
    10 pages included use of the cite attribute
    5 pages used footer inside blockquote for attribution

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Received on Monday, 19 August 2013 09:00:29 UTC